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SARAH DITCH
Structure dossier · WDID 3600795 · 1 · BRUSH CREEK · DWR record
Where this page's figures come from
Generated 2026-08-27 20:27 by Hydrohistorian. Sources: DWR HydroBase snapshot HydroBase_CO_20260707 (history) + CDSS REST (current), USGS NWIS cross-checks. Engine v0.5.0 (2deb1d7) — every figure regenerates from this named code version and data image.
Which of its rights get called out?
Not computable for this structure: this structure is not on the modelled flow network, so no reference gage can honestly stand in for it.
Where it sits in line
Priority 1915-06-09 — 269th most senior of the 1247 structures with decreed rights in this water districtDWR's administrative subdivision of a river basin; the unit calls are usually stated in..
Under prior appropriationColorado's rule for sharing water: first in time, first in right. Age decides, not proximity or need., everything ahead of it in this line is satisfied in full before it receives any water. Immediately ahead: MOSER PUMP NO. 1 (1903-05-25). Immediately behind: BEARDSLEY NO 1 POND (1915-06-09).
Decreed rights (3)
| Admin noDWR's numeric encoding of a water right's seniority. Smaller is more senior; the integer part counts days from 1849-12-31 to the date that ranks the right. | AppropriatedWhen water was first put to beneficial use. It sets seniority unless a prior adjudication date is later. | AdjudicatedWhen the water court confirmed the right. A use decreed in 1975 was not a decreed use in 1955, however old the appropriation is. | AbsoluteA right actually put to use, as opposed to conditional -- a placeholder for a use not yet made. | ConditionalA right reserving a place in line for a use not yet made; it must be diligently pursued or it lapses. | Units | UsesWhat the court said this water may be used for -- irrigation, municipal supply, augmentation and so on. | Case |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23900.0 | 1915-06-09 | 1916-07-05 | 5.0 | 0.0 | C | IRRRECFISFIRAUGOTHWLD | 206 |
| 56611.0 | 2004-12-29 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | A | AUG | |
| 56611.0 | 2004-12-29 | 2004-12-31 | 0.0 | 0.0 | C | AUG |
Recorded use (last 15 years on record)
In a median year this structure has a recorded diversion of 166 AF. Its most recent year on record, 2024, came in at 99 AF — 60% of that, and 4th lowest of the 15 years with a recorded volume.
| Year | Diverted (AFA volume: one acre covered a foot deep, about 326,000 gallons -- roughly a suburban household's outdoor use for a year.) | Compared with its own record | Days recorded | Peak (cfs) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 73 | 2nd lowest of 15 · 44% of median | 176 | 1.0 |
| 2011 | 198 | 11th lowest of 15 · 119% of median | 169 | 1.0 |
| 2012 | 30 | 1st lowest of 15 · 18% of median | 182 | 0.4 |
| 2013 | 159 | 6th lowest of 15 · 96% of median | 173 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 166 | 8th lowest of 15 · 100% of median | 164 | 1.0 |
| 2015 | 139 | 5th lowest of 15 · 84% of median | 165 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 206 | 12th lowest of 15 · 124% of median | 169 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 244 | 14th lowest of 15 · 147% of median | 181 | 1.1 |
| 2018 | 167 | 9th lowest of 15 · 101% of median | 179 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 291 | 15th lowest of 15 · 175% of median | 176 | 1.2 |
| 2020 | 195 | 10th lowest of 15 · 118% of median | 158 | 1.0 |
| 2021 | 161 | 7th lowest of 15 · 97% of median | 169 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 213 | 13th lowest of 15 · 128% of median | 175 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 74 | 3rd lowest of 15 · 45% of median | 91 | 0.8 |
| 2024 | 99 | 4th lowest of 15 · 60% of median | 78 | 1.0 |
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